I am seriously telling people in drought stricken suburbs, cities and towns to collect any large rubbish bins or industrial size builder’s tubs and place them around your back garden. Even put them under your rain pipes.
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A fellow autie was chatting with me about the autism spectrum and how categories of Autie and Aspie aren’t as clear cut as many imagine. We were chatting about those with features of each. I talked of Aspie-Auties and Autie-Aspies. She then jokes about Aspinauts, that this could describe those […]
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Chris Draper, a scientific researcher with the Born Free Foundation contacted me about a new ‘therapy’ ready to cash in on the tail of that equally hot money spinner in the ever expanding autism marketplace, dolphin therapy.
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When I wrote the book, Nobody Nowhere, I was 26 years old and at the end of the line. This month, the book which has been selling for almost 20 years comes out as a revised edition with Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
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Our local postmasters are wonderfully autie friendly. However I might get away with being meaning deaf, meaning blind, mono tracked, lacking simultaneous processing of self and other and tumbling pretty much what’s left, these people handle it well with everything from a good natured ‘chuckle with’ to turning a blind eye… CONSTANTLY.
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Each month I send out a challenge for people to send me a 1-2 word topic they’d like me to write a poem to and I must write all the poems in the challenge within 48 hours.
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After recently exhibiting at the United Nations among the world’s best known autistic artists in New York, I have a solo exhibition as part of the ‘Art for a Cause’ program at Gallery 15 @ 15W this May 16th-June 5th 2008, titled “Beyond Words”.
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From harsh beginnings Aisha came into a fortunate adoption with an autism friendly family who are able to see the person she is and work to shape a world in which her personhood can blossom and be appreciated. Here I talk to her adoptive father, David Clark who has an exciting idea […]
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Heta Pukki is a public speaker diagnosed on the autism spectrum who is listed on http://www.auties.org . She she is speaking about the autism world in Finland. She has some interesting things to say about autism history, activism and relationships Autistic style. Here’s our interview.
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Jason Taylor is a creative spirit full of talent waiting for opportunities. He’s a world traveller, an historian, mathematician, sportman, art lover, performer, into dancing, reading and writing. He’s a fascinating young man and I invite you to enjoy what he has to share. He’s also one of the many people […]
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